WiP/FMC - A Vacation from My Vacation

July 31, 2012

Because life is so hard, I decided to take a vacation from it all. Well, actually, I'm visiting my in-laws and playing tourist in North Carolina. Next week, we're playing tourist in Washington, DC. So there's not going to be as much sewing for a bit.

Finishes:

Before I left, I finished up the Layer Cake Snowballs top.

Fifteen Minute Challenge

Still steadily working through Big Blue's binding. I turned the third corner yesterday. Home stretch!

In-Progress:

Central Park Sudoku - nine patches are sewn, partially sashed, and triple checked for Sudoku accuracy.

LQS Saturday Sampler 2012 (15/36 blocks) - good GRACIOUS, these blocks were a pain. Such simple blocks, such numerous simple mistakes.

Quilting:

Bad Romance & Fall-gyle - No progress on either of these. Oops. Really not doing well at catching up on my quilting.

Swapping:

Picture-Perfect Polaroid Block Swap

In-Progress-But-Not-This-Week

Fat Quarter Stars (6/12 blocks)

In-Progress-But-Not-This-Summer

LQS Saturday Sampler 2011 (12/12 & center)

Chunky Log Cabin (13/20 blocks)

St. Paul's Cross (2/42? blocks)

Adoption:

Application Submitted - 2/12

Home Study - approved 5/12

USCIS paperwork - mailed 6/12
Home Study to Korea - 6/12
Referral Accepted - 6/12

New Projects: 0

Completed Projects: 1

In Progress: 10

Stash Report - Week 30

July 29, 2012

It's a good thing there was no stash report last week - now this week's looks great!

Finishes:

{Nine Patch Snowball}

{Layer Cake Snowball}

Yay for Snowball Fights!

Used this Week: 8.05

Used Year to Date: 73.89

Added this Week: 0

Added Year to Date: 122.20

Net Used for 2012: (48.31) yards

Snowball Fight! {Week 4}

July 28, 2012

Do you save your snowballs' HSTs? Good, because now you have a whole other quilt!

Here's a Moda Bake Shop tutorial with several different HST layouts.

I'm planning on this one, because there's stars in the pattern.

{Leftovers from the Layer Cake Snowballs make a 12x14 layout, 30x35"}

One of my favorite non-traditional HST layout is Debbie's from A Quilter's Table.

Need more inspiration? There's a whole Flickr Group for that.

Or you can toss like-sized HSTs in a bag - I have my Nine-Patch-Snowballs leftovers in with my leftovers from my Blue Bowties. At 1.5", they're pretty tiny, so I'll add more bonus-HST before I decide what to make. Someday.

Week Three of the Layer Cake Snowballs

Assembly!

Alternating color corners, sew together seven rows of six blocks.

{57x67"}

You can either lay it out in advance, or wing it. Press each row in alternating directions, and I pressed my final seams open.

My layer cake had a lot of directional prints, so I planned out each row as I went along, but I didn't worry too much about where everything ended up as long as they were right side up.

WiP/FMC - Lots of Little Things

July 24, 2012

So, where to start...?

How about...we accepted a referral for this little guy!

His name is William WooYeong, he's ten months old, and we have about a year to wait until we get to bring him home.

So that's my favorite little thing...but I did do a lot of other little things this week.

Finished:

Nine-Patch Snowball {Well, the top, at least.}

Fifteen Minute Challenge

I decided to do Big Blue's binding while supervising the Dude's daily homework. {Which is one worksheet page..but also torture. Apparently. And often takes longer than fifteen minutes.}

I've forgotten how nice a hand-stitched binding looks. Need to do it more often. Anyway, I stitched every day but Sunday, and I'm done with 2.5 sides.

In-Progress:

Layer Cake Snowball Fight - all ready to be assembled!

Central Park Sudoku - really doesn't look like it's changing, but all the blocks are in rows, at least.

LQS Saturday Sampler 2012 (12/36 blocks) - despite screwing up my block last week, I could still make this set by switching the green and brown...and then I miscut the green. That's a six-piece 3" square to make into HST on the top of the green pile. Attractive.